Streetlights Remember 3

Intro

Corner light hums where my grandma used to stand

Verse 1

Same four blocks since the 80s still humming loud

Taxi idles long enough for a cup of coffee

Bus stop bench cold like it's been waiting too long

I sit down, write in my book, let the whole block know

Every streetlamp here got a story to tell

Somebody died under one in '97, I felt

The concrete remember more than we do

Pre-Chorus

So what happens when you're standing right where they stood?

What kind of current runs through the rust on the road?

Tell me, can the sidewalk learn something it lost?

Is every shadow just a ghost in the frost?

Chorus

Streetlights remember, I can feel them hum low

Every corner knows my name, so do you know who's coming home

Verse 2

Five years back I wrote under one on Cortland Avenue

Corner store owner paid me to read out loud, 'cause I was the only voice he'd trust on a Tuesday night

Now they're closing that block down for the new development tower

Said progress don't got time for the old story

I went back, the light's still burning, but half gone

Paint's peeling off like it trying to move along

Same post where I stood reading still standing there

Same crack in the sidewalk my grandfather slid through